Baton Rouge General and PHNS Announce New IT Outsourcing Services Agreement.BATON ROUGE Baton Rouge (băt`ən r  zh) [Fr.,=red stick], city (1990 pop. 219,531), state capital and seat of East Baton Rouge parish, SE La. , La. -- Baton Rouge General, its parent General Health
System and PHNS PHNS Provider Healthnet Services Inc. today announced a new three-year agreement under
which PHNS will provide information technology (IT) staffing and related
services to Baton Rouge General and General Health System.
PHNS has provided IT services to Baton Rouge General and General Health System since July 2000. The new contract is effective October 1, 2009. "We are pleased to work with our long-term IT service provider, PHNS," said Dionne Viator, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for the General. "We have made a significant investment in IT to optimize optimize - optimisation patient care and transform our hospital into the top tier of hospitals in the nation for the effective use of information technology. The PHNS staff is very familiar with our organization, our needs and our IT initiatives. PHNS provides us with excellent quality of services as well as consistency which is critical to IT initiatives," added Viator. "The agreement enables us to provide critical IT services to a valuable hospital partner, Baton Rouge General, which recently was named as one of the 'Top 25 Most Connected Healthcare Facilities' in the nation by Health Imaging and IT magazine," said Rick Kneipper, Chief Administrative Officer A chief administrative officer (CAO) is responsible for administrative management of private, public or governmental corporations. The CAO is one of the highest ranking members of an organization, managing daily operations and usually reporting directly to the chief executive and Co-Founder of PHNS. About Baton Rouge General: Baton Rouge General is a 544-bed community hospital with two locations, serving a nine-parish region of south central Louisiana
Central Louisiana, also known as the Crossroads region, is the part of Louisiana which includes the following parishes: Allen Parish, Beauregard Parish, Catahoula Parish, Concordia Parish, Grant . It is the only community-owned, not-for-profit, full service hospital in Baton Rouge. General Health System is the parent organization of Baton Rouge General. For further information visit www.BRGeneral.org. About PHNS: PHNS provides information technology (IT) services for hospitals, other healthcare providers and businesses. PHNS' IT services include application hosting, co-location and managed services An umbrella term for third-party monitoring and maintaining of computers, networks and software. The actual equipment may be inhouse or at the third-party's facilities, but the "managed" implies an ongoing effort; for example, making sure the equipment is running at a certain quality ; electronic off-site data back-up and data vaulting Transmitting data to a computer in a different location for backup. ; business continuity solutions; disaster recovery services; and systems integration services. PHNS also provides comprehensive business process solutions for hospitals including health information management (including medical record management and storage, transcription, coding, release of information and electronic medical record services), advisory and receivables management services. PHNS creates business-healthy hospitals by improving operations, enhancing technology and increasing cash on hand, which allows hospitals to focus on their core competency--patient care. PHNS has approximately 1,670 customers, including approximately 400 hospital IT and business process customers and approximately 1,270 IT customers. PHNS is headquartered in Dallas, Texas “Dallas” redirects here. For other uses, see Dallas (disambiguation). The City of Dallas (pronounced [ˈdæl.əs] or [ˈdæl. . See www.phns.com for additional information about PHNS. |
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